To ask for your favourite sayings/phrases?

[SailAwaySandra]

Mine are

I’d rather be late in this life than early in the next

And

If you want something done properly, do it yourself (bloody annoying but always true)

Two seemingly opposed ones, though really they're not.

Never say die, up man and try - on a little vase my late and lovely MIL had.

Do or do not. There is no try - Yoda.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

It's like giving a monkey a machine gun.

Farting against thunder.

Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.

You make a better door than a window.

"Study from the University of The Bleeding Obvious"

used when media reports things like "eating 10 burgers a day is unhealthy" or "women spend longer chatting than men" or "people don't like being told they are fat"

Everyday is a good day only some are better than others

You’ll have no pockets in your shroud

What’s before you won’t go past you

Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday and all is well

I would rather sit on a cactus 🤣🤣🤣 🌵

I could agree with you...... but then we'd both be wrong

DM used to tuck me up in bed & say “ Snug as a bug in a rug”. Never heard anyone else say it.

Every single year, that same po-faced 'university' gather together every conceivable option for Christmas dinner and then wag their finger at how very many calories we all overeat on one day out of 365, when compared to the recommended daily calorie intake - as if it's in any way significant.

I always assume they're probably the same kind of person who, on being congratulated on winning exactly £20m on the lottery, would be at great pains to tell you that it isn't actually that much in reality, as don't forget that they had to spend £2 to buy the ticket!

This day is dragging like a seal’s backside

"A few dilithium crystals short of a warp core" (to describe someone missing a few brain cells)

When asked to do something, the reply: 'I wish I could but I don't want to'.

• a quote from Phoebe in Friends.

Like a rat up a drainpipe

He's only here for the beer - quoted by my dad at sports day when one of the kids was a lap behind the rest

I'm too old for this batshittery.

Not this thread, that's my phrase.

My favourite is “you can’t roll shit in glitter and call it a puppy” - I no longer remember where I heard it but it always makes me laugh a little

I used to have 3 favourites;

1. Language Timothy (showing my age, too many blank looks at work now)
2. Worse things happen at sea (DSis got a job as a sailing instructor, makes me feel bad to use it) and
3. those that matter don't mind (see attached pic)

Omg, look at the time...time for you to shut the f-ck up!

Love this so much 🤣

Get to fuck. Off you fuck. Both mean fuck off, obviously.

Oh, I'm sorry...did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?

This is my favourite too!

PEBKAC - problem exists between keyboard and chair

My parents used to say that too.

Or maybe you're my sister.